Supporting Strong Connections... Nurturing Solid Development... Strengthening Steady Community...
The ROC (Resource and Opportunity Center) for Homeschoolers
Schedules
Click Here for CALENDAR
OUR NEW
NYC HOME FOR HOMESCHOOLERS
is made possible by the coordinated and cooperative efforts, and volunteer services
of The ROC community members. Thank you!
Community Events Monday, June 28, 2010 Pot Luck and Swap. Let's enjoy sit down meals as a community, bring a dish to share, or contribute to take out - so much affordable yummy food steps from our door! Also, clear your cabinets and closets and bring your stuff that you are finished with for swapping - books, curriculum, toys, clothes, shoes, kitchenware, appliances, supplies, etc.! - maybe someone else can use it. Anything unclaimed at the end of the evening will be donated to charity, so get your community service in while you commune with your homeschooling community! FRIDAY NIGHT FUNdraisers! night. We'll play Go Fish, Hearts, Spades, War, Spit, Spoons and whatever other card games folks want to play. Everyone is welcome from 6:00 pm till whenever. The suggested contribution for family card night is $20 per family. No one will be turned away for being broke. Each family should bring a snack to share, and a $1 per family for paper goods.
1st Annual BST FEST! BUY SELL TRADE!!
11:00-3:00
You bring it someone else takes it away!
Sound good? Have stuff you want to have OUT of your house or out of your sight??? I know I DO!!!
So lets trade, or gimme your best offer, or forgoodnesssakes please just take it away!!!
SPACE FEE: around eight bucks per family or 2 bucks per person. BUT, No one would be turned away on financial basis.
We might also have a low key bake sale table with some goodies to help us all keep up the rag-picker stamina!! All proceeds would go to the ROC. If anyone is interested in that let me know. That could be a different good way to cover the cost of the space donation.
What the Heck?: bring your no longer needed clothes, books, “school books”, home items, small appliances. Fabric, yarn, Anything you once found usefull, or thought you’d find useful but never got around to, outgrown but still in nice condition, sports equipment, (baseball bats too small for your kid, ice/roller skates, etc. etc.)
PS not a great time ?. We can tweek. Or if there is some major multi-family involved shindig that day that would preclude many who would want to from attending. Let me know.
Madeline Jaye (Henri, Alma)
(check calendar!!!)
Next Friday is open to someone else to organize -- suggestions include karaoke, charades, or something else entirely different! Bring your ideas!
Community Events:
ENCHANTED GATHERINGS FALL HARVEST HOLIDAY GIFT FAIRE & FUNDRAISER at The ROC
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
Dear Friends Small and Tall,
After you've been Thankful with friends & family and survived
department store chaos, please join us for a FREE Grateful and
Enchanted Celebration of Nature's Bounty! We'll be sharing some of
our enchanted magic at this special fundraiser - you can have a lot of fun while also getting some of your holiday shopping done!
Children’s FREE Entertainment from 12:30 to 3pm
Children’s Nature-Craft Activities 12:30 to 3pm
Holiday Gift Market from 12:30 to 4pm
Raffles throughout the day
Free children's entertainment includes music, singing, and imaginative dramatic storytelling with Jimble the Elf.
Delicious Fall-tastic food and wonderful nature-craft activities such as glass leaf-lantern making, raffia dream catchers, mini canoe
constructing and more, all offered for a modest donation. (your help
keeps this class and all classes at The ROC going!)
Raffles for amazing prizes such as a year-long membership to CMOM,
passes to Children's Museum of the Arts, tickets to MET Opera and
other theatrical performances (including some homeschool productions) will happen throughout the day.
(raffle prizes can also be great gifts!)
Gift Market featuring handmade wares from talented local
artisan-vendors round out our day of enchanted fun.....
PRICE:
FREE to enter (donations welcome) and all entertainment is FREE
Crafting activities, food offerings and raffles ranging from $1-$5 donation
Vendor prices start in the under $10 range with a full price range of offerings.
Including an exclusive hand-bound, color-printed Enchanted Gatherings booklet that will include poems, fingerplays, and songs, imaginative activities, and step-by-step craft instructions with photos, for those who wish to extend the elfish enjoyment and fun at home.
Every Thursday afternoon at The ROC our class has delighted children (and their families!) with nature-imbued and imagination-infused activities including poems and fingerplays, fairy tales and songs, dancing and drama (with the children taking on roles and characters), and nature-inspired arts-and-crafts. We've helped timid trolls, feathered pixie nests, befriended owls and enjoyed weekly adventures tromping through forests, soaring through skies, and sloshing through
bogs. It's been grand and we want the enchantment to continue!
RSVPs would be greatly appreciated. Also, if you are a skilled crafter and would like a table (from $10-$25, depending on size), or if you would like to volunteer your enchanted talent/skill, or just help out in general, please email TheROC93@gmail.com
Hope to see you on the 26th!
Wishing you all Happily Enchanted Holidays!
FOOD & TALK
BY DONATION:
A Day with Sandra Dodd
Friday, February 18, 2011
1:00 – 3:30pm
Introduction to Unschooling with Sandra Dodd. Sometimes less is more. Sorting out how people learn from the way most of us were taught in school is a worthy undertaking for homeschoolers. Adults routinely learn things on their own at their own speed, and children can too, with help and encouragement.
4:00 – 5:00pm
The Deeper Meaning of Unschooling: A frank discussion between Sandra Dodd and Peter Kowalke.
Sandra Dodd and grown unschooler Peter Kowalke discuss unschooling as lifestyle and the lasting influence it can have on a person's life--both positive and less positive! This discussion will be recorded for later broadcast on Unschooler.com.
6:00 – 8:30pm Brave New Thoughts – Unschooling with Sandra Dodd
This presentation will be a reassuring (or maybe disturbing or embarrassing) talk on how people think when they're not thinking about thinking, and how they COULD think if they thought about it. It will be about unschooling and thinking. About learning and life.
Sandra will talk about unschooling, followed by time for questions and answers. All ages are welcome. There will be a separate room for kids (childcare may be provided during the presentations at $3/child if we have enough people who want it). We’ll be "passing the hat" in hopes of recovering Sandra's traveling costs and expenses for the ROC (or you can also contribute NOW through Paypal, sent to TheROC93@gmail.com as a "Personal/Other" transaction to avoid fees). Please consider making a donation to thank Sandra for her time and generosity and to the ROC for making this event possible!
The ROC will offer a large selection of delicious food (suggested donation $2 for snack plate, $4 dinner plate). Vegan and gluten-free options available.
Please RSVP by Friday, 2/11, to Mary Draper for directions, with number for food, and if you would like childcare. Drop ins also welcome. Mark your calendars and spread the word! (Sandra will be speaking at various places in PA, NJ, NY and CT in February. For details ask Mary.)
Sandra Dodd writes and talks about unschooling. Sandra is a mother of three always unschooled children, now 24, 22 and 19. You can read more at SandraDodd.com. She is a writer, a former classroom teacher, and a well-known voice in online discussions about unschooling. She likes to help parents be thoughtful and creative. Families around the world credit her with helping make their lives richer and happier. She has written for Home Education Magazine, Life Learning, Live Free Learn Free, and other publications. She has also published Moving a Puddle, a collection of her essays and Sandra Dodd’s Big Book of Unschooling.
Peter Kowalke is a lifelong unschooler based in New York, and he currently serves as editor-in-chief of Unschooler.com. He is the creator of the Grown Without Schooling documentary (2001), which follows 10 grown homeschoolers and candidly explores the lasting influence of home education. He has been a columnist for Home Education Magazine (1997–2002), Home Educator’s Family Times (2004–07) and Life Learning Magazine (2004–08). Peter also has worked for homeschooling umbrella school, Clonlara, and Indian homeschooling advocates, Shikshantar Andolan.
CONCERT SERIES:
starting
Friday, October 15, 2010, 4:00 pm
Immediately Following the NYCHEA meeting
Concert #1
Violin Duets through the Ages
Duets by Telemann, Kalliwoda, Bartok, and Lanctot. Musicians: Emily Orenstein, Pete Lanctot
This will be the first in a series of concerts that will be presented monthly at The ROC by Pete Lanctot. Designed as a quality outreach musical education program, the series will feature Classical, Jazz and Contemporary concerts including Appassionato Duo, Trio, and Quartet, The Metropolitan Brass (brass quintet), Achordial Brio (new music ensemble), Pete Lanctot (violin), Emily Orenstein (violin), Nate Reit (trombone), Advanced Student Recitals as well as other possibilities. Interest in this series will help develop our music programs, including early music theory and Suzuki group classes. Pete Lanctot is a composer, violinist, and Suzuki teacher who was also homeschooled.
Light refreshments will be available for purchase.
2011-2012 School Year
Check Class Descriptions page for detailed description
**schedules subject to change**
Any recent updates will be shown on the Calendar
Refer to "Click Here for Calendar" on the left of this page
Winter 2012
MONDAYS
11:00-2:00 Playschool Co-op for AGES 3-6
TUESDAYS
12:30-1:30 Primary Ballet for AGES 3-8
1:00-2:30 Seriously Fun Science AGES 9+
(starting in mid-February)
2:00-3:30 Film Making Class with Children's Museum of the Arts (through January)
1:30-2:30 Ballet 1 for AGES 8+
THURSDAYS
11:00-2:00 Playschool Co-op for AGES 3-6
12:00-1:00 Ethics AGES 12+
1:00-2:00 The Art of Thought & Talk, AKA Building Blocks for AGES 12+
2:00-3:00 Debate AGES 12+
3:00-4:00 Civics: the Art of Thought & Talk, & Debate AGES 8-12
3:00-4:00 Once Upon a ROC: Story, Movement, Crafts
Nature inspired story, craft and movement class for AGES 3-6
FRIDAYS
4:00-5:30 Private Use
SATURDAYS
Birthday Parties and Private Events
(Space rental starts at $200 per party!)
PRICES:
Playgroups start at $65 for 10 weeks
Most other classes are as follows:
$125 per class per 6 week term
(3 classes for $$340, 4 or more classes for $460)
$210 per class per 10-12 week term
(3 classes for $600, 4 or more classes for $785)
$1600 1 full day
(4-5 hours of classes and activities per week)
$3200 2 full days
(4-5 hours of classes and activities per week)
FALL 2011
MONDAYS
11:00-2:00 Playschool Co-op for AGES 3-6
4:00-6:30 Teen Film Class for ages AGES 12 +
THURSDAYS
10:30-11:30 Primary Ballet for AGES 3-8
11:00-2:00 Playschool Co-op for AGES 3-6
12:00-1:00 Ethics AGES 12+
1:00-2:00 The Art of Thought & Talk, AKA Building Blocks for AGES 12+
1:00-2:00 Ballet 1 for AGES 9+
2:00-3:00 Debate AGES 12+
3:00-4:00 Civics: the Art of Thought & Talk, & Debate AGES 8-12
3:00-4:00 Enchanted Gatherings:
Nature inspired story, song, craft and movement class led by an elf for AGES 3-6
WINTER/SPRING 2011
MONDAYS
11:00-12:00 Steven Tenney Math for AGES 6-10
11:00-2:00 Preschool Program AGES 3-6
11:30-12:30 Ethics AGES 12+
12:00-1:00 General Science: Chemistry, Biology, Geology, Physics, and more AGES 8-12
12:00-1:00 Chess - Intermediate/Advanced
12:30-1:30 The Art of Thought & Talk, AKA Building Blocks for AGES 12+
1:00-2:00 Chess - Beginners
1:30-2:30 Debate AGES 12+
2:15-3:30 Monthly Math for Middle Schoolers
2:30-3:30 Public Speaking AGES 12+
2:30-3:30 Brain Science for AGES 12+
2:30-4:00 Japanese II AGES 12+
2:30-3:30 Lego Robotics, Video Game Design & Computer Animation for AGES 8-12 and 12+
2:45-3:30 Little Builders with 7 year old Neo
4:30-5:30 Lego Robotics & Applied Mathematics for
AGES 4-7
4:00-5:00 The Art of Thought & Talk, & Debate AGES 8-12
5:00-6:00 Beginner Ballet AGES 9+
4:00-6:30 Teen Film Class for ages AGES 12 +
THURSDAYS
11:00-2:00 Preschool Program AGES 3-6
2:00-3:00 Introduction to Ballet AGES 3-12
3:00-4:00 Beginning Ballet for AGES 9+
FRIDAYS
2:30-4:00 Playgroups for AGES 3-6 & AGES 8-12
6:00-7:30 Movie Night with Discussion led by teenagers
ALL AGES but discretion is advised
FALL 2010
MONDAYS
10:00-11:00 Public Speaking AGES 12+
10:45-11:45 Steven Tenney Math for AGES 6-10
11:00-12:00 Building Blocks AGES 12+
11:30-12:30 Martial Arts with Zachary Mabry AGES 6+
12:00-1:00 General Science AGES 8-12
12:00-1:00 Introduction to Debate AGES 12+
1:00-2:00 Introduction to Ethics AGES 12+
1:00- 2:00 Literature & Writing AGES 8-12
2:00-3:30 Beginning Japanese AGES 12+
2:00-3:00 Lego Robotics & Applied Mathematics
AGES 8-12
4:00-6:30 Teen Film Class for ages AGES 12 +
TUESDAYS
1:00-2:00 Lego Robotics & Applied Mathematics for
AGES 4-7
2:00-3:00 Martial Arts with Zachary Mabry AGES 6+
WEDNESDAYS
9:45-11:30 Mommy & Me Baby Sign Language
12:00-2:00 Sign Language classes for mixed ages
THURSDAYS
10:40-12:10 Math with Sara for AGES 8-12
11:00-12:30 Science, Art & Story AGES 3-6
12:30-1:30 Math with Sara AGES 3-6
12:30-1:30 Lego Robotics & Applied Mathematics
AGES 8-12 AND 12+
1:30-3:00 Playgroup for AGES 3-6
1:30-2:30 Improv AGES 8-12
2:30-4:00 Foreign Language Study and Latin AGES 12+
2:30-4:00 Literature & Writing AGES 12+
4:00-6:00 The Movie Studio AGES 8-11
Kids coming together to make movies
6:00-7:30 Movie Night for AGES 12+